Last Friday, 14 February, St Faith’s School Choir (from Cambridge) filled the atrium at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital with beautiful music, performing a heart-warming concert to raise funds for Tom’s Trust.
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St Faith’s is an extra special school for Tom’s Trust as it was the school that Tom, who Tom’s Trust is named after, attended. Tom’s Trust was founded by Tom’s parents Debs Mitchell and Andrew Whiteley after he died from a brain tumour, aged nine in 2010. Little support was given to their family as they navigated his terminal diagnosis, and they grew determined that no other family should go through what they had experienced alone.
The Tom’s Trust service at Alder Hey was launched in 2023. Our clinical psychologist team there provide a lifeline for families across the North West, where a child has been diagnosed with a brain or central nervous system tumour. There are approximately 43 children and young people diagnosed with brain and spinal tumours at Alder Hey each year. Before this Tom’s Trust service opened, the average wait for psychological support for a family facing a child’s brain tumour diagnosis was six months, the new service managed to initially reduce this wait to weeks.
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Debs Mitchell, Co-Founder of Tom’s Trust and Tom’s mum, said: “It’s such a special connection to have pupils from Tom’s school raising money in Liverpool where we have a service. We’re so proud to be supporting children with brain tumours and their families in the North-West and a visit from Tom’s old school just reinforces the personal origins of the charity.”
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